---
id: 657d7b217b77cf8cf1969713
title: Task 20
challengeType: 19
dashedName: task-20
---

<!-- (Audio) Bob: I've taken things way too seriously in the past. -->

# --description--

`Have taken` shows you did something before. Here's how you might use it:

**Picking up**: `I have taken the book.` - You took the book from somewhere.

**Choosing**: `I have taken the red one.` - You picked out the red one for yourself.

**Accepting**: `I have taken your idea.` - You decided to go with someone's idea.

**Feeling**: `I have taken the joke seriously.` - You thought the joke was more serious than it was meant to be.

Each use of `have taken` depends on what action or decision you made.

# --question--

## --text--

Which of the options best explains how Bob's usage of `have taken`?

## --answers--

He's making a choice.

### --feedback--

The meaning of `have taken` here is not related to choosing something.

---

He's accepting someone else's idea.

### --feedback--

There was no mention to ideas in this sentence.

---

He's expressing how he felt about his activity.

---

He's picking the camera up from the desk.

### --feedback--

He does not talk about picking things up in this case.

## --video-solution--

3

# --scene--

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